How To Make Money Trading Forex Forex is the
knowledge and business of making money through exchanging foreign
currencies. Forex is not a new business and its history is as old as the
history of money. There are people who have been making money through
Forex from many years ago.
Fortunately, with the help of computer and internet, Forex trading
has become much easier. You can sit at your personal computer and trade
from home without having to make any phone call or referring to any
bank. How is it possible? There are broker companies that enable you to
buy and sell different currencies through the Internet and some simple
softwares. For any trade that you make, you pay a small commission to
the broker company that you are trading through it. You need to find a
good, reliable and well-known broker company and sign up for an account
with it.
Then you have to fund your account. You use the money you have in
your account to trade. Any profit that you make, will be added to your
account and vise versa. Then you can withdraw the money you have made.
What currencies can you trade? In Forex, you deal with currency pairs.
There are four main currency pairs: British Pound and USD (GBP/USD),
Euro and USD (EUR/USD), USD and Japanese Yen (USD/JPY), USD and Swiss
Frank (USD/CHF).
In each currency pair, the first currency works as the commodity and
the second one works as the money. For example when you choose the
GBP/USD to trade, if you buy, you buy British Pound against USD and if
you sell, you sell British Pound against USD. It doesn’t matter what
currency you have in your account. The trading software makes the
exchanges automatically. Fundamental analysis has a long term usage but
good traders can predict the sudden changes that happen after releasing
an important news about economic situation of an important country.
For example when the news says that economic situation of USA is
improved for 5% in comparison to the last month, USD will become
stronger and people start buying it. So the value of USD will go up
because of the sudden increase of demand. If you know the effect of the
news on the price, you can take the proper position and make money. Of
course there are two sides in this story which means if you take the
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